Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also constantly tested Army-wide, often at 3 or 4 a.m.: how fast each unit can be combat loaded and on the road toward prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than 15% on leave at once. Yet in their drills the battle-ready battalions never roll all the way to their carefully prepared positions. Reason: in the age of tactical missiles, battle positions are secret; the Seventh wants no fixed Russian missiles zeroed in on battle targets...
...Calvin Coolidge. Son John, 52, Connecticut business-forms manufacturer, still remembered the upshot of his mother's purchase of a costly home-remedies book from a door-to-door fast talker. After leaving it on a table to leaf through later, she found penned on the flyleaf in Cal's handwriting: "Don't find anywhere in here a suggested cure for suckers...
...apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...
...Manhattan, Gallery Owner André Emmerich has published A Preface and Four Seasons, which combines the pleasant, anecdotal reveries of Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw with five signed lithographs by fast-rising U.S. Abstractionist-in-Paris John Levee, 35. The text accompanying Levee's Images of European Summer (see color) draws on Shaw's own expatriate ramblings, summons up visions of "the sea calm, the sun hot. Everybody lazy and on holiday." Offshore a party on an aircraft carrier makes "the final perfect touch against the violet horizon." Sales to date: eight (which included a signed gouache...
...sure way to increase property values. Explains C. W. Dearborn, assistant vice president of the California Bank of Los Angeles: "Last year people kept telling me, 'This is the year we normally buy a new car, but they cost too much and they depreciate too fast, so we decided to buy a pool instead.' " Like most banks, Dearborn's makes five-year pool loans at 5½% to 8% interest...